Man shot twice in 2 days is Irvington's 8th homicide victim of the year

IRVINGTON — A 24-year-old Irvington man was killed in a fusillade of gunfire outside his Florence Avenue home late Monday night, less than 48 hours after being injured in a shooting at a Newark gas station, authorities said.

David Bravo was shot multiple times as he stood on his porch just after 10:15 p.m., according to township police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. He was pronounced dead at the scene about 15 minutes later.

Bravo was one of three people shot at a Getty Gas station at the corner of Sanford Avenue and Mt. Vernon Place early Sunday morning, authorities said. Bravo, shot in the arm and abdomen in that incident, and the two others were taken to University Hospital, treated and released, the prosecutor’s office said.

Township police and the prosecutor’s office are working to determine if the two shootings are linked.

“We’re investigating the possibility that the two incidents are related,” a spokeswoman with the prosecutor’s office, Katherine Carter, said on Tuesday afternoon.

Carter said investigators do not have a motive or any suspects.

Township police Lt. Michael Tomich said witnesses to the fatal shooting saw a man running through nearby yards after the gunfire. Irvington, Maplewood and State Police canvassed the area shortly afterward but did not find any suspects.

Newark police had little information on the gas station shooting, which they said is still being investigated, now with the prosecutor’s office’s involvement.

The homicide is Irvington’s eighth this year, down from 12 for the same period last year, Tomich said.

Anyone with information on either shooting is asked to call the prosecutor’s office anonymous tips line at (877) 847-7432.